Atiku condemns southern Kaduna massacre, says Tinubu culpable

Drawing a contrast, Atiku noted that the United States government had recently committed about $750,000 to evacuate a single American citizen stranded on a remote Pacific island after a potential exposure to hantavirus, a gesture he said illustrated the difference between “governments that regard every citizen’s life as sacred and those that appear more concerned about international applause than the security of their own people”.

In a statement issued by his Senior Special Assistant on Public Communication, Phrank Shaibu, on Monday, Atiku described the killings in Kauru Local Government Area of Kaduna State as “heartbreaking and unacceptable”, insisting that “every life lost is a painful indictment of a government that has repeatedly promised security but continues to preside over an expanding landscape of bloodshed.

He said the people of Southern Kaduna and all Nigerians did not need letters of praise from foreign capitals but needed security, stressing that they should be able to “sleep without fear, travel without anxiety, cultivate their farms in peace and raise their children without the constant threat of terrorists, bandits and other violent criminals”.